LivesA. Miller, 1800 - English poetry |
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Page 50
... wrote this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes hims.If , bearing each a part in the representation . The lady Alice Egerton became afterwards the wife of ...
... wrote this masque . Lawes set it to music , and it was acted on Michaelmas night ; the two brothers , the young lady , and Lawes hims.If , bearing each a part in the representation . The lady Alice Egerton became afterwards the wife of ...
Page 51
... wrote so mich , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain pre- tervation from oblivion . At Florence ...
... wrote so mich , and praised so few . Of his praise he was very frugal ; as he set its value high , and considered his mention of a name as a security against the waste of time , and a certain pre- tervation from oblivion . At Florence ...
Page 58
... wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some . Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . While he contented himself to write , he perhaps did only what his con ...
... wrote a treatise to justify it , and to compose the minds of the people . He made some . Remarks on the Articles of Peace between Ormond and the Irish Rebels . While he contented himself to write , he perhaps did only what his con ...
Page 64
... wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough to think that the nation ...
... wrote letters , which Toland has published , to such men as he thought friends to the new commonwealth ; and even in the year of the Restoration he bated no jot of heart or hope , but was fantastical enough to think that the nation ...
Page 79
... wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his smaller works are found as they were first written , with the subsequent corrections . Such reliques shew how excellence is ...
... wrote with much care appears from his manuscripts , happily preserved at Cambridge , in which many of his smaller works are found as they were first written , with the subsequent corrections . Such reliques shew how excellence is ...
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